Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing . |
| 2 | And their mother had screwed up the tube of toothpaste so tightly that the lid would n't budge . |
| 3 | Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip . |
| 4 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 5 | Now playing at inside-right , Whitworth was top scorer with 16 goals , but he also combined with Frank so effectively that we had a comfortable 2nd Division season , and then he headed our scoring chart again in 1924–25 . |
| 6 | He was dressed and had smarmed his hair down with water so generously that the droplets ran down his forehead and soaked into his shirt . |
| 7 | The new mother will often throw herself into motherhood so fully that she forgets to give time to the marital relationship , which can suffer considerable damage as a result . |
| 8 | His successor , Alexander I , was known as ‘ the Fierce ’ , and there were legends of his suppressing an uprising by rebels from Moray so brutally that nobody survived to explain the reasons for their disaffection . |
| 9 | When waves crash over the reef , the fish swims into a crevice , sticks up its bony trigger and locks itself in place so firmly that neither ocean currents , hungry predators nor inquisitive skin divers can extract it . |
| 10 | The three Free Presbyterian ministers and their supporters heckled Soper 's open-air meeting in Ballymena so persistently that the police had to intervene and the meeting was abandoned . |
| 11 | Sometimes parents rip off stars from charts so often that the child never has enough to exchange for the big reward . |
| 12 | People found that their savings became completely worthless and that salaries , once received , declined in value so rapidly that workers became desperate to convert currency into goods as soon as they could . |
| 13 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 14 | Now Fenna rose , higher and higher , and , holding all his power for one sharp second of perfect concentration , revealed to Maggie the crazy onrushing of the galaxy where everything spins through space so fast that the observer is locked in stillness . |
| 15 | He relates it to Lennie so often that he almost begins to believe it himself , although underneath he knows that it can never happen . |
| 16 | Another possibility is that ischaemia progresses to ulceration so rapidly that it is unlikely to be observed in isolation . |
| 17 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 18 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |
| 19 | On 19 June 1841 the spire of St Michael 's was struck by lightning so severely that it had to be taken down and rebuilt at a cost of £84 , paid for by the Buxtons . |
| 20 | The extreme ultraviolet is part of what physicists call the vacuum ultraviolet , wavelengths shorter than about 200 nanometres which are absorbed by air so strongly that experiments have to be performed in a vacuum . |